ok mate I'm up for that I'll check the lobby to see if your on if not I'll check back at 8am my time 3am yours.

Anyone else want to play?

I'm online do you want me to host? and what settings do you want?

Its not showing up on the lobby for me I'll come off the forum incase that's screwing it up?

I'm back in the lobby again.  

No pirates. Also, if you don't like where you start in the first turn you can ask for a reroll (in case one guy gets the middle and the other's on the far edge).  

Come back to the forum.  There's no way to communicate outside of it.

Unless you have gmail and thus gchat.  

My version is 1.1

Are we doomed? 

go to your library click on GC3 then right click,left click on properties and at the beta screen click on the opt in bit and hopefully it should start to download?

Goddamn it, I hate being the guinea pig.  

ok

Uh game just crashed.  

Take a look at my civilization and if you think you can still beat it, let me know.   Bad start so only managed 17 colonies by turn 27.  Didn't play that optimally either.  With a better start I could have done much better.  About to get the rest of the planets on the map (may have overbuilt colony ships though).  Going for Malevolence level 5 (free big ship on each planet).  With 30-40 colonies, this means 30-40 free extra ships that I was going to ball up into fleets and attack.  

Oh yeah, I also have Gaia Vortex and Hyperion Matrix and Hives on each planet so the average production per planet is 40 research or 40-50 manufacturing depending on type, despite having an average of 2 pop on each planet.  Teching everything in 1-2 turns.  

My population is 4x yours in part because I have 4x the number of planets.  Also, the Malevolence level 3 ideology (free transports) means an automatic 30 population, which is HUGE in the early game.

Galactic Civilizations III multiplayer basically boils down to who can get Malevolence level 3 and level 5 invasion ideologies.  The person who can colonize enough planets to get there automatically wins.  

Thanks,

Marigold.